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Thanks to all for the congrats. To answer the question as to my favorite in the last 500. It became a very easy response after listening to my son tell everyone what we did. TRF and I were caching in Deer Isle when the alert came in to a new cache 6 miles from my home. We had to pick my son up in Castine and decided to grab the cache on the way home. We arrived at the parking and armed with a 1 candlewatt powered flashlight and the backlights on 2 GPS units managed our way into the deep dark forest to find the cache(Punkin Dunkin).My son was some excited to be the FTF in the dark,in the woods, after driving for an hour.

Everyone has the right to be an idiot at times. Just don't abuse the privilege.

Firefighters!

So here's the deal. Having been a paid call firefighter with Waterville Fire Department for 21 years, 15 as a Captain, it's absolutely true that for the most part there's little actual fire fighting...but..there's a lot more that goes with job then putting out fires. I think if you ask a professional firefighter, he/she will tell you that putting out fires is only about 5% of the job.

But when the plectron goes off and the first unit signs off "condition Red" then there's not a firefighter out there who's not totally prepared to "put in on the line" so that's what goes into how these guys work and how they get paid.

But I remain jealous about how much time some of these guys get to play on their computers and post provocative posts on the site!

So here's the deal. Having been a paid call firefighter with Waterville Fire Department for 21 years, 15 as a Captain, it's absolutely true that for the most part there's little actual fire fighting...but..there's a lot more that goes with job then putting out fires. I think if you ask a professional firefighter, he/she will tell you that putting out fires is only about 5% of the job.

But when the plectron goes off and the first unit signs off "condition Red" then there's not a firefighter out there who's not totally prepared to "put in on the line" so that's what goes into how these guys work and how they get paid.

But I remain jealous about how much time some of these guys get to play on their computers and post provocative posts on the site!

The real deal is that when a firefighter drives the 105 foot ladder truck and only responds to fires that require that truck(and in Augusta there are NO buildings that tall) he does not have to "work" very often!!